The winter weather shut in hundreds of wells, most of them in the northwestern area of the basin, but most areas were hit. To get an idea of just how badly the oil industry was hit, here are some data points from some selected areas and selected fields.
In each field, the December, 2010, production is listed first, and the production in January, 2011, when the wells were shut in, is listed second and in bold.
It should be noted that the December weather affected production also, but I did not want to show the November production figures since the page might become too busy / too confusing.
Field; December, 2010 production; January, 2011 production
Numbers rounded
Williston area
- Hebron: 17,000; 0 (and even worse, because the field produced 27,000 in November)
- Squires: 79,000; 250 (yes, that's not a typo: 250 barrels produced in this field in January 2011)
- Painted Woods: 71,000; 0 (this field produced as much as 101,000 in September, 2010)
- Todd: 18,000; 0 (even worse, because this field produced 33,000 in November)
- Stockyard Creek: 56,000; 27,000
- Sanish: 1.3 million; 110,000
- Parshall: 1.0 million; 9,000
- Murphy Creek: 192,000; 65,000
- Alger: 258,000; 31,000
- Big Bend: 111,000; 114,000
- Reunion Bay: 111,000; 109,000
- Van Hook: 317,000; 12,000
- Mandaree: 7,000; 6,000
- Spotted Horn: 47,000, 27,000
